Games How To Play By HexaGamers / February 7, 2017 Share 0 Tweet Pin 0 Share 0 Share 0 ***Disclaimer*** This post may include affiliate links, including Amazon. This does not affect your viewing or any pricing on the associated sites, but we make a commission on purchases. This is how we help fund this site. Thanks! Game Overview Mammut is a game that brings you back to your roots of a good old fashioned Mammoth hunt. After returning from said hunt, you must distribute all the loot amongst the tribe (other players). You can take as much as you want when it’s your turn to pick, but other tribe members will have the option to steal your entire pot when it’s their turn. After 5 hunts you will determine who has the best collection for their family and thus being crowned the king/queen of the tribe (aka winner of the game). CHECK PRICE Looking for our full review of Mammut, click here...Mammut Review Rules Overview At the start of the game (and each of the 5 total rounds), the loots is spilled onto the board. Players will take turns picking out what they want from the loot of the hunt (31 pieces), then passing the remaining to the next player.The next player can either steal the entire amount (minus one) from one of the previous players or pick from the pile. Turns continue until all tiles are gone.Scoring then occurs. Scoring is done based on what you have, and in many cases variable when compared to what the others have. Having the most of something usually gets you extra points, while having the least can get you negative points. More on this in a bit.Variability between the rounds come as players can use ‘action cards’ to either change the scoring of their loot (9 different options) or using the action card to affect the pile of available cards in some way. Eg. Flipping cards over or seeing what’s on the back of ‘question mark cards’. The tiles available will change every round since each is double sided, are shuffled and poured on to the game board for distribution.Players will have different collection goals every round, so this will change the objects they are going for, but there are two other variables that come into play when selecting what you want. One is that there are “question mark” tiles that have an unknown object on the back which you get (this is good for those gamblers out there). And lastly, there is a ‘shaman’ tile. This tile is used to determine tie-breakers in the game. Simply put, whoever owns it or is closest to the shaman wins the tie breaker (could be closest clockwise or counter-clockwise depending on the way this tile lands).SCORINGLike many games, the points you get from have lots of one thing, or many different types of one kind, can go up dramatically the more you have. Or, can hurt you significantly via negative points if you don’t have something.There are many different areas you can try to collect: furs, different animals, victory points, fires, and of course meat. You score all points at the end of each of the 5 rounds except for animals, which are scored at the end of the game based on the variety that you have in your collection.The nice thing about the scoring is that the game board has all the scoring on it in front of you the whole game, so you can reference it as you need to.Winner is the one with the most Victory Points at the end of the game.
